Word: unspoken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...things Japan has lost since its economic bubble popped 12 years ago - the van Goghs, Rockefeller Center, national confidence - add one more: the comforting, all-accepted platitude. You don't hear the whens, hows or ifs of economic recovery anymore: the unspoken question these days is whether some seismic collapse is on the near horizon. Lifetime employment, a pillar of the Japanese miracle, has been supplanted by the specter of lifetime underemployment for today's twentysomethings and brutally early retirement for the salarymen who rose out of that rubble. A lot of Japanese are shaking their heads and muttering, "Times...
...them, they look like...well...giant moths. Hence, the title The Mothman Prophecies. Their business is to warn the world of impending disasters. The possibility that their auguries may be of the self-fulfilling variety--that they may actually cause the chaos they predict--hovers unspoken as we watch director Mark Pellington's entertainingly eerie film...
...range that has included a political activist in Waking the Dead and the girlfriend who survived Pollock's fatal car crash. "Jennifer is a great listener," says Mind director Ron Howard, "both onscreen and off." That capacity girds her work with a passion as fierce as it is unspoken...
...general, the film is at its best when it is portraying the dynamics of this three-person group. Their experience, their unspoken communication and their absolute trust in each other allow them to pull off spectacular cons. It is the interplay between them that gives the movie what little momentum it manages to gather...
...possibly, the unspoken policy is deeply feminist. Could it be that corporate America is using recruiting dress codes as a way of protesting the horrible repression of societies where women cannot bare their well-toned legs even if they want to? Have JP Morgan and N.O.W. topped Dubya and General Pervez Musharraf as the world’s strangest bedfellows...